Congratulations to CAHR students on their important publications

Posted on Tuesday 19 August 2025

Our LLM student Kate May published an important blog contribution on Opinio Juris, one of the leading international law blog sites. Titled ‘Scholasticide in Gaza: A Need for Recognition of Systematic Educational Destruction as Genocidal’, the article contends that recognising scholasticide within the Genocide Convention's framework would substantively strengthen protection of educational rights in conflict zones and establish more robust obligations for third-party states. Furthermore, such recognition might provide a meaningful path towards justice for a generation of Palestinian children who have been systematically deprived of their educational opportunities and, consequently, their cultural heritage and future.

The last edition of the York Law Review has published Helen Clifton’s article ‘Legal, Financial, Physical and Structural: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Reasons Why Disabled People are More Likely to Experience Homelessness’. The article is based on independent empirical research and Helen’s LLM dissertation - it challenges the notion that homelessness is an individual problem and argues that it is, in fact, a symptom of structural inequality. Ultimately, Helen notes, we must address the harms and barriers impeding disabled people’s access to safe and secure housing.